100%. I really miss it.
Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
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Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#92I miss the anonymity, the freedom you had to join a random channel and talk to whoever without being afraid of that being linked to your real persona. In today's internet I tend to watch everything I comment or do, because it can later come back to hunt me.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#93I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network. And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.
If you're looking for rooms with high activity, I put together a list of the top 30 busiest IRC channels I'm in by sorting my logs by size (descending) [0]. The command that generated the list: grep -v -c '(\-\->.*has joined| [0]: https://clbin.com/9fcdI Archived paste: https://archive.li/4OMf3 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com...
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2020-02-15 06:56:00 kichimi but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internetRe: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're looking for rooms with high activity, I put together a list of the top 30 busiest IRC channels I'm in by sorting my logs by size (descending) [0]. The command that generated the list: grep -v -c '(\-\->.*has joined| [0]: https://clbin.com/9fcdI Archived paste: https://archive.li/4OMf3 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200215033709/https://clbin.com...
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> but you didnt put a disclaimer in your post saying rizon was the most toxic network on the internet
We're not all assholes. Just most of us.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Took me all of 10 minutes to set up irssi on a free google cloud vps many years ago. It's still chugging along. ~ uptime 23:22:27 up 787 days, 15:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's not that hard.
Not that hard, if you don't care about two things: - Typing latency - Access from mobile devices Many people don't care about those things; good for them. Unfortunately for me, I do. I can (and do) use a bouncer, which theoretically solves both problems: text entry is handled by my local IRC client rather than every keystroke going through a server, and I can run an IRC client on my phone. Unfortunately, bouncers are…
mosh solves my latency and mobile access issues handily.
tmux, irssi, and mosh on a VPS and i’ve had that setup for IRC for ... pushing a decade?
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#96I don't miss IRC much -- I actually miss the paragraphs-level chat systems with lightweight categories, like MIT Zephyr and Gale. They really encouraged deeper thought, in the way that an HN comment is often deeper than an IRC one, just by virtue of having more time to collect your thoughts and then getting to attach them to the right place. It's surprising that nothing like those systems lasted. I also miss ytalk, w…
https://zulipchat.com/ MIT Zephyr inspired. Bought by Dropbox then divested.
I've used it! It is great but not very popular.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Took me all of 10 minutes to set up irssi on a free google cloud vps many years ago. It's still chugging along. ~ uptime 23:22:27 up 787 days, 15:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's not that hard.
Not that hard, if you don't care about two things: - Typing latency - Access from mobile devices Many people don't care about those things; good for them. Unfortunately for me, I do. I can (and do) use a bouncer, which theoretically solves both problems: text entry is handled by my local IRC client rather than every keystroke going through a server, and I can run an IRC client on my phone. Unfortunately, bouncers are…
I use The Lounge for IRC because I use iOS, Windows, and Linux.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#98I was born in the 90s so I never used IRC outside work. I used it for work on a daily basis until a couple weeks ago, and I hate it with passion. The vpn drops and you miss messages. You are offline you miss messages, don't want to miss messages? set up a relay (seriously?!). Now I'm on a team which uses slack, and I miss how lightweight hexchat is, but in terms of being able to use it my phone and having something t…
>You are offline you miss messages, don't want to miss messages? set up a relay (seriously?!). ...Yeah. From installing znc from your favourite package manager to having it set up and running in your client is all of ten minutes, with SSL, auto-joins, channel history and all. Is it a barrier? Yeah. Is it so much of a barrier that it would push someone concerned about centralized services and proprietary software to j…
Not all of us have a server in the closet running 24/7, and having to use someone else's computer feels like half the way to using a service like Slack.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not that hard, if you don't care about two things: - Typing latency - Access from mobile devices Many people don't care about those things; good for them. Unfortunately for me, I do. I can (and do) use a bouncer, which theoretically solves both problems: text entry is handled by my local IRC client rather than every keystroke going through a server, and I can run an IRC client on my phone. Unfortunately, bouncers are…
I use The Lounge for IRC because I use iOS, Windows, and Linux.
I haven’t used The Lounge; it looks well-designed, but I try to avoid web-based clients as they have a lot of overhead. It also doesn’t seem like The Lounge has any solution for push notifications on iOS.
(Alas, most ‘native’ IRC clients for macOS have web views inside anyway, so avoiding web-based stuff may be a lost cause. But then I’m in no position to complain about Slack or Discord using Electron…)
Re: Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
#100I've been on IRC daily for over 22 years. I know exactly what you mean. I've gone from one tight knit community to another. In the between time I've either taken short breaks or been hanging out on freenode. Right now I'm lucky enough to be in a tight clique of people with a private server. Some of them have been on IRC for as long as it has existed. Most of us also meet IRL regularly. If you find like minded people…
This is what exactly i am looking for. To chat with passionate people who can not be approached easily. The entry bar is a bit high(setting up IRC to run it 24/7). Can you post the irc channels you are in.